Capability Manager Enhanced Has New Lockout Prevention Features

Capability Manager Enhanced is a super-popular plugin with over 70,000 active users. This plugin allows you to edit the user permissions on your WordPress site.

The first PublishPress-branded releases of the plugin is now out (version 1.6) and here’s an overview of the key changes.

First, we added a security feature that stops users from accidentally logging themselves out. This happened because some users removed the “read” permission. This permission has an innocuous sounding-name, but actually controls access to the whole WordPress admin dashboard.

Capability Manager Enhanced now prevents you from removing the read capability for any default WordPress role (Administrator, Editor, Author, Contributor, Subscriber). It is still possible to remove the read permission from new roles.

If the read permission is missing from a default role, you will see a warning and be given a one-click link to fix the problem: